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That's my point: the difference between a pathology and a personality trait is merely of degree. A trait in small concentration is beneficial, but if you concen
by philipov 8y ago
That's my point: the difference between a pathology and a personality trait is merely of degree. A trait in small concentration is beneficial, but if you concentrate it enough, it becomes toxic and we label that a pathology.
In between health and pathology is a vast grey area where things get complicated, and people are biased to think everyone else is just acting like a spoiled rich kid.
- wu-ikkyu 8y agoI agree with your premise but would nitpick against calling mental illnesses (in the psychiatric sense) pathologies. >pathology: the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes. In the words of Allen Frances: "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances There are no known causes for psychiatric illnesses. Once a biological cause is discovered, it is no longer deemed a mental illness, but an actual biological pathology.